Books: Bad Throw

Grenadine Etching is a lampoon on the big-bosomed heroines of
lending-library historical fictionseemingly a sure-fire subject. The
author, a Scripps-Howard columnist, must have thought so, because he
didn't work hard enough at it.

Grenadine's father was believed to be "the bastard son of an English
King who had despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting
grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part
Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate;
her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of
Havana, then becomes a slave...